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Brad and Casey sit down with Tim Hood, the President of Shepherd's Staff - a missions facilitating organization dedicated to supporting and equipping local churches to send their own members as missionaries.

Tim talks about his experience on the mission field and his ordinary evangelism efforts here at home, including one of the most important aspects of evangelism that often gets overlooked: prayer.

While the gospel message doesn’t change, the presentation must. In this episode, Brad and Casey discuss three critical pivots that we need to make for our evangelism to be more effective and compelling in this cultural moment.

What comes to mind when you think of evangelism? In this episode Brad and Casey make the case that evangelism is non-negotiable for the follower of Jesus AND that our methods of evangelism should be compelling and faithful.

Neil is naturally wired for justice. Casey leans toward mercy. How do we navigate relationships when our friend/spouse/parent/coworker is more oriented towards a different default position than we are? 

This interview will help you navigate practicing justice + mercy in your everyday life.

In this episode, Brad and Casey explore the pitfalls of a “justice” Gospel AND the pitfalls of a gospel with no implications for justice in our world. 

How can we more fully embrace our role as citizens of a New Kingdom? Listen to find out. 

Life with Jesus is less about 'balance' and more about fullness. Mercy & Justice are fundamental aspects of the Gospel. Being a people who live out a Gospel Culture means practicing Mercy & Justice in our everyday lives. 

The "AND" of Mercy AND Justice is critical to understanding and applying this essential discipleship practice. Listen as Brad and Casey unpack what mercy & justice are and how they relate to each other. 

In a new feature on the Practicing the Practices Podcast, Casey & Brad interview an “Apprentice of Jesus” who models the practice we’re focusing on. In our first Practice Interview, we welcome Brent Crenshaw, known by those around him as a “servant”. Brent will answer our 5 Big Questions and help us imagine how we can all live a “Life of Service.”

Yes, a Life of Service means picking up your “cross”. But it is also the doorway into the good life. In this episode, Brad & Casey unpack some of the supposing emotional and physical benefits of serving. Plus, we’ll help you reimagine where and how you should serve.

The Way of Jesus is the way of service. "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

A life of service is one of the most counter-culture, upside-down, "against-the-grain" aspects of the Way of Jesus. This practice flies in the face of modern philosophy. And yet, is one of the aspects of Jesus’ life that EVERYONE loves.

Can men and women be friends? The answer for followers of Jesus must be yes. Yet, in a broken, over-sexualized, post #MeToo world – a vision for healthy male/female friendships is hard to come by. Often, it seems the cultural structures of the day put men and women against one another as adversaries.

Casey and Brad share from their own experience about the possibility and principles needed for Jesus-honoring friendship and partnership between men and women. This extended episode is a frank and honest conversation about a more hopeful way forward.